5. 3:10 pm Provost’s comments/ Maria Montoya (MM): Memo from Provost (Information item only no FS action to be taken today, we will revisit in the Fall):

Proposed changes to Faculty Handbook ATTACHMENT 5.1, Attachment 5.2 Maria Moya read Memo which had not been received by Sitka and Ketchikan representatives. General gist of proposal is that all faculty will be evaluated by Deans and not campus directors in the case of S and K faculty.

Joe Liddlein Sitka: Only the campus directors know what faculty in K and S are actually doing. In the past the various Deans have officially delegated faculty evaluation authority to directors.

Priscilla Schulte in Ketchikan -workload has to be tied into evaluations. Presently Deans do workloads and directors do evaluations on K and S campuses?

Chuck-Union input? collective bargaining issue?

Tim Ewest Ketchikan: Who evaluates faculty is a “Hot button” issue in Ketch…. Two concerns- Juneau-based Deans may or may not know about outlying campus faculty’s performance…..Workload criteria is presently structured for the Juneau campus and tends to marginalize the rural campus/community college mission.. Evaluation process must be tied to workload….What does it say in faculty handbook? Will need linkage….Don’t want to lose mission of community campuses.

Maria left report from provost council. Different criteria for extended campuses (esp distance ed, faculty tie-in to local community…tied to workload criteria)

Jill passed out a revised version of these documentsFaculty comments: Isn’t section on “Work with students”..already part of Scholarship of Teaching guidelines? –Yuliya..BAPDM…..

JD response…this varies between departments Service Sub-categories (University vs Public). Service types are not differentiated by the BOR. This set of guidelines is an attempt .to reign in the breadth of the previously unconstrained “blackhole” of service” Service has been interpreted elsewhere (especially during evaluation, tenure and promotion reviews) as UAS vs Public (with Professional service as a subset of public service)….

If we vote to accept this today what will happen?…..These guidelines, if approved will go into faculty handbook…

This is meant to be a guide for faculty preparing files for review, and activities report it can be revised through the Faculty Senate.

Comments from Sitka and Ketchikan

..keep the spirit of these guidelines as an aid to faculty preparing files and planning workloads and not punitive e.g “you must be doing everything in matrix”…. Priscilla…Social Science faculty needs to see it…. Public forum needed? EN-no responses from CIOS when this was distributed.

YI/LH moved/seconded to accept Service Guidelines as is for faculty handbookVOTE:Accept for Fac HB effective when printed 7 Reject for Fac HB 4 Guidelines Accepted and Approved for inclusion in 2007-2008 faculty handbook

Jill D requests that FS introduce these guidelines in AUG. during Convocation

VF-Education…great idea…..why haven’t we been using….so many students need….ed doesn’t teach such courses per say…but could be worked in. MAT program could benefit. (Ed Resources IC database)…mention to Larry (Dean Of Education)..librarians ready to deploy help etc….

4:05 Faculty Excellence Awards cc: Comments on first run. Selection committees established…light on applicants. Timing short, process onerous? Consider this a first attempt and improve mechanism for next time.

Awkward to nominate yourself Encourage of each Department to nominate candidates while still providing mechanism for self-nomination. Instead of 3 letters of Recommendation nominees/applicants should provide 3 pieces of evidence supporting their claim(students, new paper articles, published paper, recommendations, testimonials, etc) Connor and FE committee members will develop application/nomination rubric and revised forms over the summer. First batch of awardees will be announced at August convocation. FS will announce guidelines and forms for 2007-2008 FE awards then with application deadline in MARCH 2008.

4:15 Intellectual Property Rights - JBissue for unions, faculty alliance, distance education, UA faculty senates. .Statewide ETT how to define, use when deciding about distance ed policies for the university, guided by Unions (UNAC, ACCFT./BOR) …tried to get into contract faculty vs university rights, usually preempted by negotiations over salary and health care.

LS wants FS support from UAA, UAF UAS…Lynn wants this to go to ETT for their decision making process. Faculty bundle of rights…

EN:Serious/spiritual issue with CIOS…..High tech info over dist delivery…hours/daily…faculty property…..lecture slide shows should have faculty-author attribution/ recognition/$$$ property/arbitration….as per union contract….Steve Hamilton and Eric..N…icon links to things….movies, audios, etc….Digital age…everything is recorded..Eluminate/UA TV...snippets…..who owns them? This will be an ongoing discussions into perpetuity…..

2003 IT document painstakingly produced by Lynn Shepherd, Jennifer Brown and others needs FS support for distribution. Another one for fall convocation…..

11. Committee reports /results/status/ for the year end. Distributed by email. All committees were to snuff. GER committee made many recommendations about courses, faculty Senators should take up with their departments where relevant.